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Daniel Hugenroth
@lambda.bsky.social

Had a look at how cargo-vet is doing (spoiler: growing quickly). I really enjoy it for my projects and was wondering how projects deal with audit burden (especially with many crate updates). Wrote up a little summary here: lightsquares.dev/blog/cargo-v... 🦀

lightsquares.devA look at cargo-vet in 2026Cargo-vet requires audits of third-party Rust dependencies before they ship. We analyzed 408 open-source projects to measure adoption, audit workload, exemptions, and audit lag.

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JB
@arrotu.bsky.social

Audit burden scaling with dependency count is the wall every verification system hits eventually. The fix isn't more auditors, it's records a downstream project can check once instead of re-verifying by hand. Is cargo-vet heading that way, or staying human-review-bound as adoption grows?